Does Straterra come in a patch form?

After much searching and family stress in trying to get Strattera into my 6 year old son who has a feeding disorder and out of control ADHD, I have found an alternative solution. He can't swallow a pill and eats only an extremely limited selection of foods. (Only two of his foods are possibilities for putting medication in.) Since Strattera is extremely bitter, I pretty much couldn't disguise it enough to get it past him in any food.

At the 25mg and 40mg dosages, I could sort of hide it, but we absolutely could not get 60mg into him in any food! It seemed that he was tolerating the medicine well and been having more good days at school so I was extremely disappointed that our program was being derailed because we couldn't get the medication into him. The pharmacy we use said they couldn't make it a flavored liquid unless it was already in that form from the manufacturer.

So I found a compounding pharmacy and discussed my problem with them. At first they said they could make it into a liquid and I asked could they make it into a patch because I didn't have much hope in any flavoring being able to disguise the bitter taste. The compounding pharmacy lab then said they had made it into a transdermal cream for some of their clients.

I immediately felt a renewed since of hope! My son weighs almost 70 lbs and was on 60mg orally, but stepped down to 40mg transdermally. He has been on it for about 5 weeks and the jury is still out on whether it is helping.

He has good days and bad days at school and daycare and I still feel we are still in the process of tweaking the dosage of the medication for the best benefit. The doctor said we would try two months of 40mg transdermally and then increase to 60mg if we didn't feel improvement was what it should be.So for you parents out there that need an alternative form of this medication, a transdermal cream might be the answer. This is a new frontier as far as the transdermal delivery of this particular medication as not much information is out there on it Answer Strattera does not currently come in a patch form, at least in the United States, in 2005 Hope this helps!

Dr. B.

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